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03/09/2017

The SABBATH DAY OF REST: What a great Day!

Today the Door, named Jesus is wide open. Through that Door you may enter the Sabbath Day of God’s Rest. “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made" (Gen 2:2-3 NKJV).

The Sabbath Day of God’s Rest is one never ending Day of Eternal Existence, Peace, Love, and Joy. God does not need time. He created time for our sakes, not for His own. In His everlasting Kingdom time shall be irrelevant. Everything shall just BE, just as God IS.

Today anyone hearing the Word of God and genuinely receiving His Son: Jesus the Christ as Lord and Savior shall enter that eternal Sabbath Day of God’s Rest, as the children of God. The Apostle Paul tells us, “Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them (Israel); but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter that rest…” (Heb 4:1-3 NKJV Parenthesis mine).

Whether you enter the Sabbath Rest of God depends upon whether you believe upon the Lord of Salvation and whether you repent of your sins, turning away from sin and turning to the Love, Promises, Hope and Salvation of Christ Jesus. It is a heart thing! It Is a Jesus thing!

The question is: Is your heart receptive to genuinely receiving Jesus? Or does your heart find contentment by resisting and rejecting Jesus the Christ as the Lord of your Salvation? You only have today because tomorrow is promised to no one. “’Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.’” For if Joshua had given them (Israel) rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account" (Heb 4:7b-13 NKJV).

Because tomorrow is promised to no man, the Scriptures warn those who reject the Lord of Salvation, the Lord of the Sabbath Day of Rest. The Word of God warns those who think that perhaps tomorrow they will grace Jesus with their acceptance of Him; after they get their fill of sinful playing. For the Word of God says, again, “’Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts’” (Heb 4:7b NKJV). For those who keep postponing Jesus may discover that they do not have yet another day to postpone acceptance of Him; either because death has consumed them, or the rapture of the church—the snatching of those alive in Christ off of the earth to meet Christ in the air— has come. The only words that shall echo in their ears are, “They shall not enter My Rest.” (Heb 4: 5 NKJV).

Do not play with God my friends. He is offering you a great opportunity with wonderful eternal consequences; thus blessings. You are not guaranteed a second chance. Have you heard His call my friends? Have you accepted His call my friends? For know this my friends, “So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but fewchosen” (Matt 20:16 NKJV).

So therefore I would humbly and lovingly advise and warn you that, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts,” (Heb 4: 7b) For He says: ‘“In an acceptabletime I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation’” (2Cor 6:2 NKJV).

Today is all you really have my friends. You have no assurance of what tomorrow brings. Do you really want to risk everything by putting Jesus off?

NOT I my friends! I know that I am entering into that Sabbath Day of Rest. I hope to see you there!